Markets, Morals, and the Law

Markets, Morals, and the Law
ISBN-10
0199253609
ISBN-13
9780199253609
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
393
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Jules L. Coleman

Description

This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics and political science. There are four sections in the book. The first offers anew version of legal positivism and an original theory of legal rights. The second section critically evaluates the economic approach to law, and the third considers the relationship of justice to liability for unintentional harms and to the practice of settling disputes rather than fully litigatingthem. Finally, Coleman explores formal social choice in democratic theory, the relationship between market behaviour and voting, and the view that morality itself, like law, is a solution of the problem of market failure. This book will be of cardinal importance to philosophers of law, legaltheorists, political scientists, and economists.

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